For more than 20 years before the experiment began in 1974, paddy rice was the crop grown on the experimental site. The experimental site is located in the Pintung Plain of Southern Taiwan. In the East of the site there is a mountain about 800 meters in elevation. In other adjacent areas are large areas of paddy rice. The rotation was as follows: 1st rice (February to May), 2nd Rice ... (June to September), lugume crop (soybean or aduki bean - October to January). The experiment was terminated in 1994 after which bananas where planted. About 5 years before the experiment terminated, all adjacent fields were converted from paddy fields to upland crops.

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